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J. LINNETT, Decd.

S. KNIGHT, Administratrix.

MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND CARD BOARD BOXES.

No. 269,682. Patented Dec. 26, 1882.

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- SARAH ANN KNIGHT, OF BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF VARl/VIGK, ENGLAND, ADMINIS"RATRIX OF JOHN LINNETT, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR TO HAR- VEY S. MUNSON AND EDWARD B. MUNSON, BOTH OF NEW HAVEN, CONN.

MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND CARD-BOARD BOXES.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,682, dated December 26, 1882.

Application filed January 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that J'OHN LINNETT, (now doceased,) a subject of the Queen of England, residing in the city of Birmingham, connty of Warwick, England, invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper and Card-Board Boxes and the Lids of .Boxes, fully describedand represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

In said drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the blank of paper or card-board from which the box or lid is to be made, the dotted linesindicating where it is be in part severed and in part pierced or scored. Fig. 2 represents a blank scored or pierced and severed or out ready to be made into a box orlid. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a box or lid made lrotn such a blank; and Fig. 4, a vertical longitudinal section of the same, taken on'the line a: of Fig. 3.

This invention relates to such paper and card-board boxes and lids of boxes as are rectangular in shape, and are made by severing or cutting the blank along such lines as are necessary to provide detached folding parts, and scoring or piercing the parts or lines upon which the folding is to be efl'ected; and the invention consists in a box or lid of a box constructed from a single piece of material out or scored, folded, and secured, as will be hereinal'ter fully described and claimed.

The blanks from which the boxes or lids of boxes containing this invention are made are cut of a rectangular figure, and severings and scorings or piercings are made along the longer sides of the blank and at a distance from the edges equal to the depth which it is intended the sides of the box or lid shall have. Cross piercings or scorings at right angles to the former are made at a distance from the ends of the blanks equal to double the depth it is intended the ends of the box or lid shall have. Portions of the blanks forming ends or extensions of the sides of the box orlid are detached from the parts forming extensions of the body by the cuts, severiugs, or incisions from the ends of the blank to the cross piercings or scorings.

the body of double the depth of the ends of the i box or lid have cross scorings or piercings across their middle. The blanks thus cut or severed and pierced or scored are folded in the following manner: The longer sides are raised at right angles to the body and other parts, and their detached ends are turned in ward. The extensions of the body axe raised flat against the turned-in ends, and the upper half of each body-extension is turned over and folded down against the turned-in ends. Pasting ot the parts at the ends of the box or lid secures the said parts and completes the box or lid, which may be covered, it' required, with ornamental paper.

This invention is applicable to the manufacture of square as Well as oblong boxes or lids, and the same is not limited to a box or lid having both its ends constructed in the manner shown and described, but contemplates a structure wherein only one end is'forined in that manner, whether the opposite end is entirely open or has some other mode of closing and securing applied to it;

By the improvements in the manufacture of paper and card-board boxes and lids described the ends are made very strong. being in every part composed of no less than two thicknesses of the paper or card-board, andwhen the box or lid is narrow in proportion to its depth of three or four thicknesses in some parts. The cutting out of the blanks, the piercing or scoring, and the cutting or severing of the same are effected by machinery or apparatus of the' kind employed for like purposes.

In Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawings the dotted lines 1 2 indicate where the scorings or piercings are made along the longer side of the blank. as above described, and 3 4. are dotted lines indicating the cross piercings or scorings at right angles to the former, as above described, said lines 1 2 3 4 defining the area of the body of the box or lid.

In Fig. 2 the lines 5, 6, 7, and 8 represent the cuts, severings, or incisions up to the cross piercings or scorin gs, as before described, whereby the blank is divided to provide the parts forming the ends of the box or lid, and

dotted lines 9 10 in both Figs. 1 and 2 represent the cross scorings or piercings across the middle of the extensions of the body, which, doubled over, in part form and secure the ends of thebox or lid, as before described. To make a box or lid of a box from tl1is blank thus cut or severed and pierced or scored, the sides 19 20 are raised at right angles to the body and other parts, the detached ends 11 12 13 14 are turned inward, the double body-extensions 15 16 and 17 18 are raised flat-against the turnedin ends, and the end part or upper half, 15 I7, of each body-extension is turned over and folded down against the turned-in ends, as clearly shown in rigs. 3 and 4, the parts at the ends being attached together to secure them, as by pasting, or otherwise securing the parts 15 or 17 to the ends 11 12 or 13 14, whether or not said ends are additionally secured to the part 16 or 18.

When the sides are narrow, orit is desired, the detached ends 11 12 or 13 14 will project more or less in opposite directions across the body, so ll 13 or 13 14may overlap, meet cen trally, or have a space between their ends. The end parts, 15 or 17, of the body-extensions may also be of less dimensions than are requisite to make them reach down to the body of the box or lid.

Having thus set forth the nature of the intion, what is claimed as new is- 1. A box or lid of a box constructed from a single piece of material out or severed and scored to provide the sides with detached ends and the body with an extension, said material being folded to form the end of the box or lid by disposing the ends of the upturned sides across the body and holding the same by doubling the body-extension to embrace said ends, substantially as described.

2. A box or lid of a box constructed from a single piece of material cut or severed and scored to provide the sides with detached ends and the body with an extension, said material being folded to form the end of the box or lid by disposing the ends of the upturned sides across the body, doubling the body-extension over the ends of the sides, and securing its in ner member against the ends of the sides, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hcrcun to set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SARAH ANN KNIGHT, Relict of and administratrim t0 the estate of the said John Linneft.

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